Inside Martyn's Thoughts

James has been with his new tutor for three weeks. We didn’t know how it would go. He spent the weekend before the first session begging me ...

My blog started in 2010 as a place to reflect on my growth as a new Christian. That stayed the focus for several years, until James was born...

When William entered mainstream education (Year R) he started at the top of his class but by the end of the academic year he was bottom. Beh...

How do you justify a child’s worth? This shouldn’t be a question but it’s one that is made every day by professionals up and down the co...

I’m really proud of Will and how well he is doing in his schooling.  Looking back it hasn’t always been easy to educate him at home.  6 year...

Back to school has pretty much happened for everyone now. I’ve seen everyone have very mixed feelings about the kids going back. Me?  I’m no...

With the school closures happening as we predicted the thought of teaching the children at home has hit many hard. For those who have r...

The world has gone a little crazy at the moment with the outbreak of Coronavirus. I can understand why everyone is worried and panickin...

Some of you may have noticed that there wasn't a home ed post last week.  To be honest Home Ed went out the window the last 2 weeks...

Home Ed this week has been quite enjoyable.  We started this week with Hannah's parents here. Although Hannah and her dad went out, ...

We’ve had to change how we teach William. William is no different to a lot of children I’ve taught over the years. They get to a cert...

Home Ed this week has been really busy. It's also been a bit of a slog at the beginning of the week straight after half term but I of...

Home Ed this week has been really busy.  We've had a week were we have had to fit life in around our lessons but we have, in some w...

Home Ed is great at the moment. We seem to be covering lots of different topics and importantly Will seems do be learning lots and progre...

One aspect of Home Education that I love is the free learning that can come from everyday life. Recently, the boys and I were cleaning ...

As a class teacher I would have sworn by our education system; it was clearly allowing children to progress and achieve at whatever cost. ...

Following on with our Summer Space project we have been learning about the Moon and also about our neighbour planet Venus . It ...

Following on with our Summer Space project   we have been  learning about the Moon  and also about our neighbour planet Venus . I...

Following on with our Summer Space project   and learning about the Moon we also wanted to look at our neighbour planet Venus. V...

We have been busy investigating our Summer Space project and it occurred to me that despite me telling you that it was our topic that I ha...